Tampa Bay Area Travel Guide

At last, my notoriously poor eyesight has yielded something useful. I'm at the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, standing across the room from Salvador Dali's "Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea which at Twenty Meters Becomes the Portrait of Abraham Lincoln," trying to make my uncooperative...

Strolling behind tour leader Scott Deitche through Tampa's Ybor City on a spring evening, I found my feet in the present but my brain back in a dark past — say, Nov. 10, 1936. That's when a black sedan rolled up to the corner where our tour group is standing. From the murky car, gunmen blasted...

The iconic 100-year-old steam engine that rested alongside Church Street Station for decades has made its way to its new home – the Florida Gulf Coast Railroad Museum. The switch engine was built around 1911 by Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia for the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad...

TradeWinds Island Grand Resort opened a water park March 17 that floats 60 feet off the shoreline in the Gulf of Mexico. The St. Pete Beach resort created Splash Island Water Park, a 15,750-square-foot inflatable "floating playground" for its guests and the public. Some of the features include:...